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Cooper Trooper Universal Drop Proof Rugged Case for Archos 79 Xenon
Cooper Cases
Do you worry that your kids can't tell the difference between your shiny new tablet and a Frisbee? Time to marshal the Cooper Trooper. This family action hero not only looks great, it also offers unbeatable protection for any tablet in the 8" to 9" range. The stretchy silicon bands guarantee a snug fit and leave plenty of room for easy access to cameras and buttons – wherever they may be on your model of tablet. And, of course, the shock-proof silicon corners make sure tablet time doesn't ever end in tears.
DISCLAIMER: While all measures were taken to make this product universal, some tablet models may have buttons covered by the case. Please contact us if you are not sure about your tablet model. We also offer free return shipping for customers not satisfied with the case fit.
- Universally designed to fit any tablet from 8'' to 9'', including Archos 79 Xenon
- Cushioned corners for ultimate drop protection (tablets almost always fall on the corners)
- Easy access to buttons and cameras whatever the make of tablet
- Easy-to-clean surface
- Sturdy kick-stand with extendable arm for a variety of viewing angles
- Quickly switch from Instagram to YouTube (portrait to landscape)
- Soft, bouncy silicone bands make it super-easy to pop on and off if you want to switch to "grown-up mode"
- Single-mold design for lasting durability
- Comes in boy blue, girl pink and nothing-but-business black
- Universal & minimalist design
- Enhanced protection with resilient corners
- Long lasting, low maintenance construction
- Secure grip material
- Easy to clean
This sweet-looking cradle for any number of tablets you may have or acquire in the future is built with universal protection and convenience in mind. Silicon-cushioned corners protect the tablet where it's most vulnerable, while stretchy bands make for super easy removal and ensure nothing gets in the way of buttons and lenses. An extendable stand makes this the complete deal – what more could you ask for from a tablet case?
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ATV orbital rehearsals for ISS docking
The Jules Verne ATV mission control teams have started a tight schedule of in-flight testing.
On 14 March, ATV successfully demonstrated the crucial Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre, or CAM, in which an automated system successfully took over control of the vessel and moved to a safe location. Now, two more 'Demonstration Days' are scheduled prior to the actual docking.
The first, 29 March, will demonstrate that the ATV can automatically calculate its position and manoeuvre with respect to the Station using relative GPS navigation; it will also perform an 'Escape' manoeuvre from the S2 position, some 3500 m behind the ISS. The data from this rehearsal will be analysed by ATV mission managers and NASA and Russian partners before proceeding to a second Demonstration Day, on 31 March.
This second dry-run will test close proximity manoeuvring and control, including contingency manoeuvres for both the ATV control centre and the crew aboard the ISS. The ATV will approach first to within 20 metres of the station, retreat, then approach even nearer, to a point only 12 metres from the docking port on the ISS Russian Zvezda module, before again backing off to a safe 100-metre distance. Demo Day 2 will provide ultimate proof that Europe's resupply vessel is absolutely ready for final rendezvous and docking.


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Few people understand the commitment that goes into having an enemy, or even to holding a grudge. This explains.Find the home site of author Bill Allin at http://billallin.com
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
- E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)
Having an enemy requires a similar amount of time to having a spouse. The commitment must be the same as well. The amount of emotional energy consumed in maintaining the enmity may be even greater than that required for having a loving spousal relationship.
A person who maintains another as an enemy is Obsessive-Compulsive (OC). It makes no sense logically to expend so much energy on someone from whom you get little in return. It's like having a hobby you can't tear yourself away form, a hobby that is destructive rather than constructive.
Having an enemy is selfish and self-centred. While the OC enemy holder believes the focus is on the other person, the reverse is usually undefined. The person who maintains an enemy seeks to satisfy a dark internal need of his or her own making.
The enemy maker may be delusional. Often the perceived enemy has no knowledge of how devoted the other is to hatred of him. Nor does he care. The expenditure of energy on the enmity is almost always one way. It is not exchanged mutually, as love is.
Having an enemy is a more advanced form of holding a grudge, which is equally draining emotionally and produces nothing positive. Holding a grudge is a more polite way of saying you have an enemy.
A person who has an enemy (real or perceived) is so committed to the relationship that he or she has little time or emotional energy to devote to a positive relationship with another person. The enemy relationship takes all the emotional energy a person has.
Having an enemy is like bullying yourself. You have no one to blame for your own hurt but yourself.
Breaking off an enemy relationship is easier than breaking off a relationship based on love. To stop having an enemy, you simply refuse to acknowledge any longer that the other person is an enemy. If an enemy is real rather than perceived, most of the time what the enemy wants more than anything else is to cause fear, worry and emotional exhaustion to the other person. A real enemy relationship is another form of bullying. As with any bullying, you can't be intimidated unless you allow yourself to be intimidated. You have a choice.
Ending an enemy relationship may be easy because it requires making a decision to "end it," but the emotional commitment that is lost may be as hard as losing a loved one.
Does this sound as if love and hatred of an enemy have much in common? They do. They both require emotional commitment, devotion, even fidelity. No one can have a good relationship with an enemy if the other person could up and find someone else to be enemies with at any moment.
Is love, then, also Obsessive-Compulsive? In some ways, yes. Romantic love that grows into a more lasting friendship is healthy, whereas romantic love that does not get beyond the romance stage is doomed to failure. Romance is self satisfying, whereas friendship is more about satisfying the needs of the other person. Romance is selfish, as is having an enemy. But if it evolves into a healthy friendship, it has long term benefits for both. On the other hand, having an enemy has no benefits over the long term.
Each of us can choose to accept another as an enemy or to reject the possibility and ignore the other as much as possible. The love-hate relationships of childhood and adolescent friends testifies to how awkward it can be to establish a healthy relationship instead of an unhealthy one.
Most of us opt for the healthy kind.
Bill Allin
Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems, a guidebook for parents and teachers who want to give children the skills they need to have healthy relationships with others instead of allowing the trial-and-error method teach life lessons the hard way.
Learn more at http://billallin.com


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End-to-end solution integration (E2E SI) is essential when creating a business plan for IPTV service offerings. Rather than taking a piecemeal or partial approach to integrationwhich often results in unacceptable end-user quality of experience operators need a comprehensive method that addresses all aspects of the IPTV implementation. The approach discussed in this white paper is derived from experience gained from actual IPTV implementations over a number of years.
IPTV technology is now mainstream. Many service providers have already launched or are in the process of launching consumer IP video services in an attempt to maintain or gain market share in a fast moving, end-user focused competitive arena. Their initial approach has been to offer service bundles of voice, video and data (triple play). These same service providers are contemplating providing their customers with blended VoIP, video and data services (rather than bundling traditional voice), as well as with quadruple play, which includes mobile services. Some typical current strategic, tactical and operational IPTV-related service provider issues include:
- Media aggregation, management, and distribution solutions
- Content negotiation
- Existing network and network component capabilities
- Broadcast and multicast delivery capabilities
- Capacity to perform realistic trials
- Enhancing and streamlining business operations
- Management and billing capabilities
- Quality of experience (e.g., spectrum utilization index design, interactivity, and User Interface (UI) responsiveness)
- Quality of service (e.g., video/audio stability, scalability, and redundancy)
- Home networking components, deployment and maintenance
- Differentiated applications integration
- Personalization of existing applications
- Security and digital rights management
- Understanding the impact of offering video services on the organization
The challenge of integrating new technologies, features and services into the service providers network is complex and demanding. The transformation process usually involves maintaining existing services while developing and migrating to the new service environment. To cope with this level of complexity, many service providers turn to a partner they can trust to help them transform not only their network and services, but also their business operations. This usually includes a combination of professional consulting and integration/deployment services.
Experienced solutions integration (SI) partners have developed the capabilities to address the real issues that service providers face when implementing IPTV or triple play. The SI either takes on turnkey end-to-end projects as the prime integrator and trusted advisor, or it can provide consulting advice in targeted areas such as:
- Network integration
- Performance
- Security
- OSS/BSS integration, and/or operations analysis
- Rapid integration of new revenue generating, enhanced applications
The SI partner should have specialized lab environments that allow it to pre-integrate end-to end solutions with its own best-in-class partners. The labs are also used to develop the stringent processes required to carry out realistic proof of concept, trial, and commercial deployments for the service provider.
This paper describes how to perform IPTV solution integration, blending end-to-end IPTV component technical knowledge with a strong business-focused approach to create closely integrated work packages that are strung together via a golden thread that ties together all deployment lifecycle phases for maximum efficiency and consistency, making IPTV deployments and enhancements predictable, reliable and successful. The golden thread is a proven formula and methodology based upon many years of lessons learned in the field.
Components of an IPTV Solution
The key components of an IPTV solution that are typically deployed as part of a video services solution include:
Head-end and head-end subsystems Includes broadcast service components with relevant redundancy and management capabilities. These components include all the equipment needed for content ingestion, encoding, encapsulation, and encryption, as well as DVB data extraction components.
Edge-QAM subsystem For cable operator deployments, the SI partner must have the expertise to perform supplier management and integrate the selected edge-QAM hardware within the end-to-end solution.
Content management system Enables the content providers and the operator to self-manage the full content lifecycle from offline encoding, via ingestion and metadata management, pricing, packaging, bundling, marketing campaigns, through distribution and storage management. The CMS solution is a collection of integrated components covering the required lifecycle functionality of all content types.
Content protection: conditional access /digital rights management (DRM) A suite of integrated components covering all aspects of content encryption/decryption. Tight integration between all solution components and the CA/DRM vendor components is required.
Video on demand (VOD) server and back-office systems Video (or streaming) servers are responsible for pushing the content over IP via standardized protocols. Integration of the streaming servers with the head-end, CA, middleware and content management is required. Video services middleware platform Central IPTV component carrying all the business logic of the IPTV service and responsible for interfacing and managing all solution components and players e.g., underlying network, head-end, CA, video servers, back-office legacy systems (e.g., OSS, BSS, Customer Relationship Management [CRM]), Content Management Systems (CMS), Integrated Access Device (IAD), set-top box (STB), and end user.
Transport and access networks the characteristics and capabilities of which bear heavily on service levels delivered to end users. The network is an integrated part of the overall end-to-end video solution and should be considered as such throughout the entire process of strategic planning, design and deployment.
Customer premises equipment: residential gateway (RG)/IAD and STB The RG/IAD enables the operator to perform end-user provisioning and home device management. The STB is the main component the end-user interfaces with. The STB typically interfaces with the middleware either via a native client or web browser.
An experienced SI should be able to perform vendor evaluation for all solution components selection, including proof of concept, interoperability tests, benchmarking, and shootouts. Once the solution component is selected, the SI directly interfaces with and manages the supplier on behalf of the operator.
A Business-Focused Project Approach
A business-focused approach implies that the SI must be aligned to the service providers deployment journey from the initial services concept through commercial launch and beyond. Figure 1 below shows the typical phases an operator undertakes when launching a video services solution.
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Moving through these phases provides the operator with maximum confidence in the services readiness in terms of stability and functionality. This approach also minimizes risks while receiving user feedback prior to commercial launch.
The schematic indicates several phases of market scanning along with one or two friendly user trials. Following commercial launch there are usually growth and solution extensions and enhancement phases. Eventually, a product enters a steady state period. At this stage, the solution is not frequently enhanced or extended, user growth is predictable, and at some point a decision is usually made to reinvent or retire the product. Due to the emerging nature of the IP video business and the ubiquity of IP, many of the current commercial IP video offerings are more likely to be enhanced into new products rather than retained in their current state.
Because service providers are historically very experienced in product introduction, an internal methodology usually exists albeit focused on a different type of end-user product. Every provider has a different focus, experience, requirements, and way of working, which results in a well understood internal methodology. Usually this methodology is a set of traditional processes that the organization adopts when deploying new services that fit the organizations structure, behavior and culture.
These processes and procedures down to the smallest details have become an integral part of the organization and constitute a methodology that the organizations team members are accustomed to working with. The SI must take this internally developed methodology into account when assisting in an IPTV deployment.
Application of a Project Methodology
Experienced solution integrators have developed a project lifecycle methodology to guide their integration services. They also have created methodologies specific to individual solutions such as IPTV. The more experience the integrator has, the more its methodology will be end-to-end focused and complete. Superior methodologies, which can take years to build, should be flexible enough to align with the service providers internal processes and existing methodologies as highlighted above.
At a high level, professional solution integrator methodologies include five focus areas/phases that are executed in a cyclic fashion. These are:
- Consult
- Design
- Integrate &Validate
- Deploy
- Maintain and operate
Simply adopting the integrators generic methodology may not be the optimum way to achieve the desired project results. The integrator should work with the service provider in order to understand the organization, culture and current methodology being applied to new service introductions. This allows the integrator and provider to collaborate on creating the optimal methodology for introducing video services a methodology that best fits the service providers organizational structure and culture. In addition, it will thoroughly cover relevant video service solution areas, ensuring that all high-level criteria required for such a deployment are met.
Translating the Methodology to a Timeline
This resulting methodology has to be translated into a meaningful timeline. First, activity subjects are defined for each high-level step (i.e., consult, design, integrate, deploy, maintain and operate). Once defined, each activity subject (or workstream) is broken down into boxed set of activities called work packages, or, more formally, professional services solution integration modules.
The work packages are defined to meet specific customer business and technical needs. They also take into account the organizations operational structure and include an estimated effort in time and resources. Adding all work packages and workstream timelines provides the overall project duration.
The figure below shows typical solution integration project subjects (workstreams) that fall into the high-level steps described above. When drawn in a linear fashion, the timeline provides an initial idea of the entire projects duration and scope.
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The work packages building the work streams are addressed as independent but correlated sub-projects. Each work package has its own scope of work duration, and associated resources for execution.
An experienced SIs portfolio for IPTV should be constructed on a set of carefully selected field-proven work packages. Furthermore, the design of each work package should allow execution individually or in conjunction with others, depending on actual project requirements.
The Secret Behind Professional SI Framework Execution
A typical IPTV solution integration project involves many work packages. These work packages not only function as stand-alone modules, but also must be able to integrate with all other work packages. The ability to deal with the complexity required to bring all the work packages together as an E2E solution is the key characteristic of a successful, professional SI. As indicated in Figure 3, each work package may consist of dozens of subtasks and activities, and is usually handled as a project on its own with a dedicated project manager and team. However, the golden thread methodology applied by professional sis ensures that the single work package is closely linked to all other work packages associated with the project.
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As indicated in Figure 4, each work package goes through a series of high-level methodology steps to ensure that all required information is available, that nothing is hidden from the team and that work package activities truly reflect all aspects of the project.
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In a typical service provider project, work packages move through the consult, design, integrate, deploy and maintain cycles. When mapping the work packages to the five-step high-level methodology, the SI may find that some work package subtasks are already in process or partially complete. It is the job of the integrator to identify where each work package is in the five-step process, to verify that the steps already completed actually meet the required criteria, and to continue the process for the work packages as defined.
Fast Facts About Work Packages
In order to assist definition and project planning, work packages should;
- Be clearly distinguishable from all other work packages in the project
- Have a scheduled start and finish date
- Be the responsibility of a team leader
- Have specific resources assigned from the integrator, service provider and third parties
- Be scoped from design to delivery
- Be completely documented in the project book
- Be flexible enough to adapt to service providers internal needs and allow tight cooperation between service provider, solution integrator, and other third parties
- Be designed to work in tandem with other work packages as required to achieve the desired project outcomes
- Have the ability to run standalone, allowing a specific offer (statement of work) to be produced for each work package
A Word on Program Management
For complex end-to-end IPTV solution integration projects, strong focus on program management is one of the keys to ensuring the fluidity and interaction between work packages, as well as overall program tracking and communication. It is advisable to have highly experienced program and solution managers as solution implementation integration and deployment leads.
The solution manager role typically involves making sure that all input is gathered, performing an overall status analysis, and consolidating the issues and risks associated with all project teams, including third parties. Specifically for third-party management, the solution manager should have access to all relevant information on the technical and operational aspects of the suppliers solutions.
The solution manager initially manages the project organization setup and resource assignment involving the SI, service provider, and third-party organizations as mentioned above. Subsequently, the manager actively steers the project organization; this encompasses all work-package leaders and teams involved. In order to do this, the manager should be closely aligned with peers in the service providers organization, as defined at the start of the project.
Multilevel Discipline
A multilevel project management discipline is recommended to ensure deployment success. This typically involves a program management office structure that is responsible for taking the project from service description through commercial deployment. The project organization should include key service provider personnel who will steer and manage the project.
A time-tested approach, depicted in Figure 5, is to create three project levels: project steering committee, project management and project operational. For smaller projects, only the project management and operational levels are required.
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Project Steering Committee Level
This level includes representatives of the sponsor and enabler of the project. They articulate the projects business-related goals and provide the project management level with the authority to manage the project as the leading team. The representatives meet at intervals determined by the businesss size and relevance of the project typically once per quarter or, for very large projects, on a monthly basis.
Because the steering committee is comprised of executives from the involved parties in the project, it is the highest level of escalation in case of disputes. This approach also ensures executive participation in risk assessment, investment alternatives and project roadblock management.
Project Management Level
The project management team usually consists of program managers, sales managers, contract administrators, financial controllers and technical project managers responsible for field operations and third parties. Depending on projects overall scope of work i.e., the number of work packages and their contents this team can be extended by adding personnel associated with specific functions. These specialized team members can work either full or part-time depending on project requirements and planning.
The project management team, led by a global project manager, acts in a matrix function on top of the standard line organization. This project manager is also responsible for actively managing the project work packages.
Project Operations Level
Project operations are under direct control of the project management level and usually consist of teams gathered from the service provider, SI, and third parties. Depending on the project phase, the operational level teams usually consist of tender, operational, and installation and commissioning staff, as well as business consultants, legal specialists, and engineering staff. Also included are staff with other technological competencies needed by the project management team to achieve specific project objectives. The project operations teams are responsible for delivering project-specific, predetermined deliverables by executing the statement of work defined for their assigned work package.
For a complex implementation such as IPTV, the negative consequences of deployment errors and implementation shortcuts underscore the need for a well-designed project delivery methodology aligned with the service providers business goals. Lessons learned based on global implementations have led experienced solution integrators to develop an IPTV solution integration approach that is flexible and also mitigates the most common risks and pitfalls that service providers are likely to encounter.
Most effective is a business-focused approach that breaks down typical project methodologies into specific work packages. These work packages are carefully developed and aligned to the service provider organization and capabilities. They are then executed under strict control from a multi-tier program management organization. Assigning specialists with specific expertise to each work package, and supporting the entire effort with resources such as in house lab facilities, provides both the solution integrator and service provider with a high level of confidence that they will achieve a successful IPTV integration and implementation.


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I have attended the ICEF Dubai Workshop five times in the past and it is one of the most productive and well organised events we attend. The quality of agents selected is good and I convert more agents into partners from this event than any other.
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This was a surprisingly good workshop. I had no no-shows! I have never experienced that before at the other industry fairs I attend!
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I enjoyed ICEF Dubai! I met some good prospective agents. The event provided very good networking opportunities and was extremely well organised.
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ICEF Dubai has been a great opportunity to catch up with the agents we already work with and to meet other quality agents in Middle East. The reception on the first day, and the dinner on the terrace the second day were really good. I have enjoyed my time in Dubai and my first ICEF Workshop has been a really good experience.
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December 5, 1935 - July 26, 2013
Middletown, NY
Florence E. Stage, a homemaker and a lifelong area resident, entered into rest on Friday, July 26, 2013 at the Orange Regional Medical Center in the Town of Wallkill, NY. She was 77 years of age.
The daughter of the late Arthur N. and Ada Jones, she was born on December 5, 1935 in Warwick, NY.
Florence attended St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Middletown and was a member of the American Legion Post 151 Ladies Auxiliary.
Survivors include her three children: Richard L. Stage of Middletown, Kathleen M. Kahn and husband, Fred of Liberty, and Edith M. Stage of Middletown; her two grandchildren: James M. Phillips of Monticello and Lisa M. Phillips of Schenectady, NY; her great grandchildren: Skyler, Jared and Chenoah Phillips of Liberty; her sisters: Elaine Klindtwort and husband, Ross of TN, and Maureen Bibby and husband, Mark of Batavia, NY; her brothers: Arthur N. Jones Jr. and wife, Mary of Warwick, and Gary Jones and wife, Isabelle of upstate NY; several nieces and nephews.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30th at the Cornelius, Dodd & Connell Funeral Home, 26 Grove St., Middletown, NY. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday at the funeral home. Reverend Daniel L. Hulseapple will officiate. Interment will be in the Wallkill Cemetery, Phillipsburg, NY.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 333 Seventh Ave., 17th Floor, NY, NY 10001.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Cornelius, Dodd & Connell Funeral Home, Middletown, NY; for directions or to send a condolence, please visit www. connellfuneralhome.com


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Flames from a dumpster fire licked the outside wall of a defunct Chinese Restaurant in downtown Taunton this afternoon.
Flames from a dumpster fire licked at the outside wall of a defunct Chinese restaurant in downtown Taunton this afternoon.
Taunton firefighters knocked the blaze down before it could ignite the vacant eatery, once a popular chow mein joint just off Taunton Green.
"I have no idea what started it," said Deputy Fire Chief Scott Dexter, who coordinated the efforts of two engines, one ladder truck and a rescue truck. "There were cops doing details right there, so I wouldn't say it's suspicious."
Fire crews crowded onto the first block of Winthrop Street when the fire was first reported around 1:26 p.m.
The fire broke out inside a construction dumpster parked in a small alley/parking area next to the former Orient Restaurant.
Firefighters had the flames knocked down and the scene just about cleared by 2:36 p.m.
Although the dumpster was very close to the Orient, Dexter said he was confident they had the fire under control.
"It's a cinder block building, so it wasn't a giant concern," Dexter explained. "There was a window though, so we went in to check."
Dexter reported no injuries, and said it's unlikely Taunton police will investigate.
"With dumpster fires, there's just too many variables," he said. "They're almost impossible to investigate."
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Hope College sophomore Jeana Longoria of Howard City has won one of only six scholarships awarded statewide to Hispanic students by the National Association of Hispanic Nurses-Michigan Chapter (NAHN-MI).
Selection criteria included a letter of recommendation from a faculty mentor and an essay including background information, college and community involvement and goals after graduation. Longoria and the other five recipients will receive their $500 scholarships on Friday, Nov. 7, during the NAHN-MI annual Nursing Scholarship Fundraiser in Detroit.
"Jeana portrays a very enthusiastic and caring attitude toward the nursing profession. Throughout this past semester, she has demonstrated many positive traits such as dependability, accountability, compassion and energy," said Mary Scheerhorn of the college's nursing faculty, who wrote Longoria's recommendation letter. Scheerhorn also praised Longoria's "great creative spirit," noting that she "is a very active participant in class with a refreshingly inquisitive mind."
Longoria is a nursing major at Hope. After graduation, she hopes to work in the emergency department at Spectrum Health Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Her co-curricular activities at the college include the Nykerk Cup competition, including as a member of the sophomore play cast in this year's event, taking place on Saturday, Nov. 8; playing on the junior varsity volleyball team this year; and playing goalie on the women's lacrosse team, which is a club sport at Hope.
Longoria is the daughter of Robert and Dianne Longoria of Howard City. She is a 2007 graduate of Tri-County High School.


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We have an early contender for the most ridiculous movie of 2013: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. Delayed from summer 2012 because this film would have looked like a sillier version of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, it's now coming out in January. And holy crap, does this look ridiculous.
The above trailer gives pretty much the entire plot of the movie, and probably all the cool moments as well. Cool moments include Jeremy Renner (Hansel) dodging in bullet time, Gemma Arterton (Gretel) head-butting someone who questions her, and a special witch-decapitating trap. There are also approximately 1000 anachronistic weapons, including a witch toting a Gatling gun. As Mechanique author Genevieve Valentine was saying on Twitter, this really is the next Jonah Hex.


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We are in the middle of May Week revelry here in old Cambridge town, entailing trips to Grantchester, champagne picnics, and generally living the stereotype. It has mostly been blisteringly hot during the days, but it can be hard to remember this when the sun is on the other side of the world in the early hours of the morning at a May Ball. This being my fifth year in Cambridge, I have been to a fair few May Balls in my time, so I can say with some authority that, for girls at least, Being Cold is high on the list of Ball spoilers (or busters, if you will), second only to Sore Feet. Many carefully composed confections of dress and shoes can be seen from around 3am hobbling about barefoot and swathed in huge men's dinner jackets. I have found that the best way to get around this is to check in a monster bag at the beginning of the night containing the Ball Survival Kit of flat shoes, plasters, Something Warm, and other sundries.
Hmmm. Something Warm. Despite all this accrued wisdom, it was with a sense of mild panic that I realised I didn't have anything that fit this description and went with a black dress I am planning to wear. No shrug, no wrap, no cardigan. Nothing. What to do? Surely I couldn't buy something: since going knitting-bananas I have developed rather a violent and snobbish aversion to commercially-produced knitwear. There was nothing for it. I was going to have to make myself something.
The only problem with this moment of epiphany was that I had it on Sunday. The ball in question is on Wednesday. I did not initially see this as a problem, however, but more as an exciting challenge. It was in this - mildly delirious - mood that I set off for John Lewis. I had a pattern in mind (the Two-Tone Ribbed Shrug from Fitted Knits by Stefanie Japel); I had two full days of knitting time (plenty!); all I needed was some delightful black yarn.
I got this...It wasn't until I got home that I realised the awful truth. Not only was there no way I could knit this thing in time, but even if I did succeed in this endeavour the resulting shrug would make me look like not so much a mysterious, gossamer-clad creature of the night, as a gorilla.


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From The Editor
Feb. 22, 2013
Hello Pro Farmer Members!
Pro Farmer Associate Editor Meghan Pedersen was in Washington D.C. this week for USDA's Ag Outlook Forum. She sat in on all the market outlook sessions and came away with a somewhat skeptical impression from some of the sessions because of the optimistic outlook towards 2013 yield potential.
I don't want to downplay the potential of a recovery in yields this year. It happened in Brazil... a drought-hammered crop in 2011-12 was replaced by really good yield potential for the 2012-13 growing season. But Brazil is different. Soils don't hold water like our do and rains are typically more predictable in the tropics than here in the Midwest. And even in a "normal" growing season, the U.S. Midwest typically has to tap into subsoil moisture to survive a week or two without doing damage to yield potential.
Simply put, Brazil's soil moisture is constantly being drained and replaced in a normal year. U.S. Midwest soils take more time to rebuild subsoil moisture... and that moisture typically remains available to crops for a longer period of time. Starting the season without adequate subsoil moisture is a concern. I know USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber said something like, "There's no reason to not expect a yield recovery," but I disagree. Dry soils now simply lowers the availability of moisture for Midwest crops tap into later this summer. So... there is reason to not expect a yield recovery.
That doesn't mean yields won't recover... but it will take more than a "normal" or "average" growing season. Conditions will have to be excellent with spring rains (but not too much to delay planting), timely summer rains (don't make the crop work too hard to reach moisture) and maybe most importantly, temperatures will have to be more moderate than last year.
Unfortunately, above-normal temperatures throughout 2013's growing season is where weather forecasters agree the most. There's no guarantee temperatures will be hotter than normal this year, but most forecasters are warning another hot season lies ahead. That alone gives me reason to not expect a full yield recovery in 2013.
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Robert Wilson, MD (Dr. Bob) is Clerkship Co-Director of Pediatrics at the Pensacola Campus of the Florida State University College of Medicine, where he coordinates the pediatric curriculum and clinical training of 3rd and 4th year medical students. He is also a Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine.
Dr. Wilson earned his medical degree with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from the Medical College of Alabama, Birmingham, and completed his internship and residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill. A Phi Beta Kappa, he holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama.
Dr. Wilson served as Chief of Pediatrics at Maxwell Air Force Base Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, then relocated to Pensacola, where he has spent the majority of his career as a board certified pediatrician, educator, advisor, and leader in the health care and academic community.
During his 15 years at the University of Florida, Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine, Dr. Wilson served as Clinical Assistant Professor, as Medical Director, Faculty, and Emeritus Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at Sacred Heart Hospital. He was Director of Outpatient Services for the Pensacola Education Program Department of Pediatrics, and Medical Director at the Charles Henderson Child Health Center in Troy, Alabama, University Hospital in Pensacola, Escambia County Health Department, and most recently, Emerald Coast Pediatric Primary Care. He has served on the School Health Advisory Committee and Escambia County Public Health Trust.
Since 1968, Dr. Wilson has been a Fellow with the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Escambia County Medical Society, Florida Medical Association, and Florida Pediatric Society. He has been president of the Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) of Northwest Florida, Sacred Heart Foundation, Florida Public Health Association, and the Escambia County Medical Society and its non-profit Foundation. Dr. Wilson was a member of the Health and Education Advisory Board of Head Start, is a board member of the Medical Education Council of Pensacola, and a member of West Florida AHEC.
Considered one of the founding fathers in the emergence of specialty care in Pensacola, Dr. Wilson joined the Florida Board of Managers in 2008, representing the western Florida community and bringing an academic and private practice physician perspective.
'Dr. Bob' and his wife have been married since January 27, 1957, and have 4 sons and 9 grandchildren. He is an active member of the First Baptist Church, Pensacola.


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Pete Rose
Posted 25 June 2015 - 12:07 AM
Bandido- November 24, 1957- August 12th, 2011.....RIP, my good friend... things will never be the same here without you. :(
Gonemad -June 26th, 1962-May 13th, 2008
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Posted 25 June 2015 - 11:28 AM
Lots of things could have been going on that just reinforces my d-bag opinion of him.
Posted 25 June 2015 - 01:00 PM
fortfan, on 25 June 2015 - 11:28 AM, said:
Lots of things could have been going on that just reinforces my d-bag opinion of him.
Posted 26 June 2015 - 06:56 AM
Posted 16 July 2015 - 01:58 PM
Story comes out proving he bet on baseball
"I never bet on the Reds"
Story comes out showing he bet on the Reds.
"I never bet on them as a player"
Story comes out showing he bet on the Reds as a player.
"I never bet on them to lose"
How is anyone supposed to believe this?
Sorry Pete. Your goose is cooked. Sad. If he would have came out with the truth 25 years ago, maybe people would be more willing to forgive him by now.
I'd rather shower at Penn State than root for Michigan.
Posted 20 July 2015 - 12:47 PM
No Pete!!!! Your biggest mistake was that you "bet" on baseball, period!
Posted 27 August 2015 - 11:25 AM
lepiota, on 25 June 2015 - 06:42 AM, said:
If he consistently betted on them to win, but did not place bets on certain gamedays, one could assume he had little confidence they would win that particular game.
The bookies follow the betting patterns and this allows outside influences to effect the integrity of the game.
Posted 27 August 2015 - 10:46 PM
Henry Ford
Posted 25 September 2015 - 10:37 PM
Posted 26 September 2015 - 08:51 AM
TiGgEr3, on 27 August 2015 - 10:46 PM, said:
Posted 26 September 2015 - 08:11 PM
Posted 16 October 2015 - 11:51 PM
He bet on the game. The penalty for that is a lifetime banishment, and he accepted that. He's still alive, so already right there that means he's still out.
Moving past that.
"He never bet as a player and only bet on the Reds to win."
1 The only words that matter is "bet on the Reds." He broke the rules plain and simple. 2 If you're naive enough to think he honestly never bet as a player, then I don't know what to tell you. I highly doubt after retiring he all of a sudden decided "hey, know what would be fun? Betting on baseball!" 3 As someone mentioned before, he didn't even bet everyday. As the manager of the team, that brings out a REALLY gray area. What days didn't he bet? Was it the day he had his 5th starter going? Did he rest 3 of his starters and decide his best reliever wasn't going that day? To me NOT placing a bet on those days was the EXACT same as betting that they'd lose. There's no way he was throwing his top team out there on those days knowing he'd have money on the next day. Not saying he managed to lose, but every team has those days where you rest guys and just hope to win. That's what those days were.
"At least he never did PEDs!"
I personally argue that betting on the game is WORSE than PEDs, because at least the PEDs guys were actively TRYING to better themselves and help the team win. But both are cheating and unethical so I won't go there. The bigger issue is, does anyone take the time to realize that his bookie/one time roommate was a KNOWN PED dealer? Pete played well into his 40s in order to break the record, in the time that steroids became a big thing. Put 2 and 2 together....while it can't and never will be proven, it looks AWFULLY likely that he was on roids at the tail end of his career. That would make him DOUBLE the piece of trash.
"But he's truly sorry."
I bet serial killers are too once they're caught. Doesn't make the punishment any lighter. Besides, if Pete were TRULY sorry, he'd quit showing up in Cooperstown every year during the HOF induction ceremony signing autographs. He'd quit signing in Vegas casinos. He'd quit with the autobiographies that magically seem to show up every time he wants to talk to the commish about reinstatement. He's not sorry, he's milking this for every dollar and every minute of attention he can.
I'm a person who generally believes in giving people 2nd chances, but screw Pete Rose. He was obviously a great player and his accomplishments belong in the Hall of Fame....but much like Shoeless Joe before him(who has a MUCH better case for reinstatement), he did the crime and now he's left out. And it's 100% his fault.
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Oh boy, have I got some neat stuff for you today – GetSocial 1.03 is ready, and it's jam-packed with new stuff, go get it now!
What is GetSocial?
GetSocial is a program I've made, that will generate social bookmarking toolbars for your blog or website within seconds! Because it makes pure HTML code without scripts, GetSocial is the ideal social bookmarking solution for WordPress.com bloggers. Oh, and it's also absolutely free!
What's better in GetSocial 1.03?
Add to Twitter
I've considered replacing the Ma.gnolia button with either Twitter or Yahoo! Buzz, but apparently there was nothing to consider: Twitter it is! I've decided to go with the following twitting format: "Title @ Permalink".
Character limit handling
Twitter has a 140 characters limitation, so I've designed GetSocial to handle long inputs when necessary. Realizing that your link is the most important bit of information, the title will be automatically trimmed if the total length of the message is too long. If there's only enough room for 5 characters of title or less, only the permalink will be sent to Twitter. Note that your permalinks will never be trimmed, even when the link itself is longer than 140 characters.
Inspired by the Twitter thingy, I've also added auto handling for Digg (which has a 60 characters limit for its title field).
Permalink verification & Automatic error correction
Okay, I'm officially sick and tired of this bug in WordPress.com where you get the permalink all messed up if you copy it from the edit window (the PLEW bug). The first thing I did with the new version of GetSocial was to add a permalink check feature. This (optional) feature pings your website while making the toolbar, and makes sure that the permalink you've entered actually exists.
Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to solve the permalink bug because WordPress.com generates error pages, so if you've got the domain name right, there is no (simple) way for the program to know that the post address is correct.
This is why I've also added a special algorithm that detects and autocorrects permalinks that are affected by the PLEW bug. This is a heuristic algorithm, but tests have shown very high (>95%) rates of success in detecting and repairing affected permalinks.
Support for CSS effects
If you've got the CSS upgrade from WordPress, you're going to love this! With GetSocial 1.03 you can easily add special graphic effects to your GetSocial buttons, simply by pasting some CSS code to your blog.
For example (Internet Explorer only):
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Add the above code to your blog's CSS, and your GetSocial buttons will appear in B&W. When visitors to your blog will hover over them with the mouse – they will change to full color. There are tons of other effects you can make, but if you want to support browsers like Firefox you can only use alpha effects (you can find an example at the bottom of this post).
Text links
In additional to the regular buttons, GetSocial is now capable of producing a text-only version of the social bookmarking toolbar:
Facebook | Digg | Del.icio.us | Stumbleupon | Reddit | Blinklist | Twitter | Technorati | Furl | Newsvine
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Code and image optimization
I've managed to remove a few extra bytes from the images GetSocial puts in your blog, and there are also 5 new mirrors for the images. Some tweaking I've done also slightly reduced the size of the GetSocial executable (so this time you're actually getting more for less!)
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What can Aprilia's flagship superbike do better than the Space Shuttle? Stoplight races. The company's 180-hp RSV4 gets from zero to 60 mph two seconds quicker than it takes NASA's soon-to-be-retired spaceamino to do the same. Hey, rocket scientists, put that in your slide rules and perform a range of analog mathematical computations with it.
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Anadolu Efes Istanbul has had one of the greatest turnarounds in basketball history last season. After finishing the 2017-18 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season with a league-worst 7-23 record, Efes recruited elite point guards Vasilije Micic and Shane Larkin and other key players such as Rodrigue Beaubois, Adrien Moerman and Tibor Pleiss to become fully competitive. Efes came out of the gate strong and won eight of its first 10 regular-season games, which led to Micic's selection as the EuroLeague MVP for November. The team kept rolling and Larkin found his rhythm late in the regular season, helping Efes finish the phase in fourth place with a 20-10 record. Despite splitting the first two games of the best-of-five playoff against FC Barcelona Lassa and thus losing the home-court advantage, Larkin had 30 points in Game 3, which Efes won 68-102 in Spain, and 18 in do-or-die Game 5 to take his team to the Final Four for the first time since 2000. Then Efes downed Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul 73-92 behind 30 points from Larkin to reach the championship game. CSKA Moscow stood in its way, but Efes went home and completed a great season by lifting its first Turkish League title since 2009. The team edged rival Fenerbahce 4-3 in the title series. Larkin had 38 points in Game 5, as Efes exacted revenge from the Turkish Cup final.
Anadolu Efes Istanbul was founded in 1976 and needed just three years to start collecting titles. Efes won its first Turkish League trophy in 1979 and made it to the EuroLeague quarterfinals group stage the following season. More Turkish League crowns came in 1983 and 1984, but Efes did not become a dominant club and a European contender until the 1990s when it went on a glorious run and won the Turkish championship in five of six seasons through 1997 under the tutelage of Coach Aydin Ors. That's when Efes also put Turkey on the continental basketball map for good. In 1993, Larry Richard, Petar Naumoski and Ufuk Sarica took Efes to the Saporta Cup final, but Aris Thessaloniki escaped with a narrow win. In 1996, Efes became the first Turkish club to win a European title when Naumoski and Sarica joined forces with Conrad McRae and a young Mirsad Turkcan to lead Efes to the Korac Cup crown by downing Olimpia Milan in the finals. Efes soon became a EuroLeague regular and in 2000 the club achieved another first among Turkish teams by making the Final Four, a milestone it repeated in the 2001 SuproLeague with Hedo Turkoglu, Mehmet Okur, Predrag Drobnjak, Ibrahim Kutluay and Damir Mulaomerovic leading the way. Efes came within one shot of reaching the 2004 Final Four too, but was denied by Skipper Bologna's Gianluca Basile. It was back dominating domestically during that span, in which Efes won four consecutive Turkish championships from 2002 through 2005. The club lifted Turkish Cups in 2006 and 2007 and did even better in 2009 by winning the Turkish League and Cup double, but had to wait until 2015 to lift another trophy – the Turkish Cup after beating archrival Fenerbahce in the final. Efes qualified for the EuroLeague playoffs in 2013, but lost to eventual champion Olympiacos Piraeus in a classic series in the maximum five games. Two years later, Efes lost 3-1 in the playoffs to that season's champ, Real Madrid. In 2016-17, the squad coached by Velimir Perasovic reached the playoffs for the third time in five years thanks to a sixth-place finish in the regular season. Its series against Olympiacos was the only one to reach Game 5 that season, but Efes eventually fell to the Reds. Efes ended a three-year title drought with a Turkish Cup triumph in 2018, but the arrival of Shane Larkin and Vasilije Micic took the club to another level. Against all odds, Efes went from being last in the 2017-18 EuroLeague to runner-up a year later. Efes returned to the Final Four in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and topped Fenerbahce in the semifinal before falling to CSKA Moscow in the championship game. Efes capped a great season by winning the Turkish League behind an unstoppable Larkin. With most of its core players under contract and an undeniable leader in Coach Ergin Ataman, Efes will try to go one step higher and challenge for the EuroLeague title this season.


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I love these Linda - very useful! Thanks so much!
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@Linda: Lovely 2013 brushes!!! You are 'da bomb!!!
I love your freebies Thank you so much for sharing your work, it's amazing
I love this. TYFS!
Thank you so much for generously sharing your designs with us!
@Linda: absolutely love love love the new Polaroid frames!!! I'd love to have other holiday themes, too.
Scrabble tiles are marvelous, thank you! I hunted around for a long time looking for a scrabble alpha, and these are the nicest I've seen!
What gorgeous designs! I especially love the 2013 stamps. Thanks so much for sharing your hard work.
Thank you so much! These are really neat!! I especially love the Silent Night one ... So gorgeous!!!
These are seriously cool! Thanks very much for sharing. Now I just need to learn how to use them. lol
Tina, Shawna, Jessica, Jenn, Reba, Violet, Janet, Angela, Heidi: You all are very welcome! I'm so glad you can use what I'm making. Thank you for the feedback. I have some more Valentine goodies coming your way too. Hope you all can use and will share them with others.
o. m. gosh!!! i absolutely love those adorable definition hearts you shared today, so presh!
Those definition hearts are so cute, Linda! tyvm!
I'm glad you like the definition hearts, Shawna and Lizanne!
Thank you so much for the freebies! Some are perfect for upcoming Valentine's Day pages, too!
Thanks for both the winged brushes and the inseparable brush! Love your stuff!!!
How beautiful! Thank you for your generosity.
Hi Tracey, Shawna and Sharon,
Thank you for your kind comments and encouragement. I'm glad you've found things you can use! I've got more Valentine's goodies coming up. Christmas and Valentine's Day are my favorite Holidays to create art for. They are so colorful, happy and the meaning behind those Holidays inspire me. I just never seem to have as much time to actually make the things that float around in my head, but I have fun trying!
Thanks for sharing your talent so generously.
thanks so much for sharing! i love these!!
These are very cute!! Thank you so much for sharing them with us!
Fantastic as always Linda!!! TYSVM for your generous gifts.
Aw. Thank you for saying that, Harriett. I'm really trying. Thank you Elizabeth, Natasha and Shawna! I'm so glad you like them
Wow! There is so beautiful thing... I just started to do digital scrapbooking but I think I'll love it with all the nice stuff I found on that site
As always, perfect items to add to my collection! TYSVM Linda!
Hi Ladies! (Nancy, Lizzie, Shawna)
I'm so glad you're finding things to help you with your scrapbooking. That makes me happy. Thank you for your comments--it's so nice to find them here! (Shawna, you always say "TYSVM"---you are a sweet person and you always make me smile )
Many thanks Linda for sharing! I really in love with your heart strings and also the vintage hearts! Actually i just starting to play with digi scrapbooking... and sometimes it's make me feel guilty I only able to download and not able to share.... Hmmm... maybe this is just a silly question for all of you here... I was really curious on how did they make those cute elements and also those beautiful papers? Did they do scanning? because it's look so real... Forgive me for this stupid question T.T
You're welcome, Scarlett. As for me, I use Photoshop and Illustrator (software programs) to create a lot of things I make. I use the scanner sometimes too. If you watch some of Marissa's tutorials (under "Tutorials" at the top of the page,) you can follow along and get a better understanding of how digital elements are made and used--and by looking in the "Gallery" (top of the page also,) you can get ideas for your own page layouts and color combinations. Have fun!
Thanks for your info as soon as I get a better knowledge and able to make elements and papers I think I wanna make Indonesian beautiful Batik as theme for the kits hopefully >.<


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The Miami/New York-based Ex Norwegian has been around in various forms behind singer-guitarist Roger Houdaille since 2008. "It's A Game," originally done by String Driven Thing (but a bigger hit for The Bay City Rollers), offers a preview of the band's sixth release. This faithful cover utilizes a marching beat while while tapping into the band's power pop roots. When Houdaille and vocalist Michelle Grand harmonize on "It's a game, a game, a game that we're playing," it's reminiscent of Material Issue's "Renee Remains The Same." They adroitly sell writer Chris Adams' message of life being absurd, beyond our control, and fun. Houdaille and guitarist Lucas Queiroz power the song, and combine with bassist Guiseppe Rodriguez and drummer Fernando Perdomo for an energetic instrumental passage.
Permanent Clear Light made a splash among European psyche rock fans in 2013 with the "Higher Than The Sun" single from its album Beyond These Things (Havasupai). The easy-going "Corneville Skyline" is taken from the group's second effort, The Other Side Of Life, which is due out next spring. Overflowing with hippie vibes and a hint of The Beatles' "Penny Lane," it sets imagery of small town life to enticing arrangement built on strings, guitarist Markku Helin, and Arto Kakko's percussion, keyboards, and alto recorder. Vocalist Matti Laitinen delivers the cryptic lyrics involving wedding vows; a simple and a clever sister; and a guy who envisions spending all summer with a smile on his face.


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Becky! Internet Mail is the software specifically designed for the Internet e-mail. Since its birth in 1996, we kept improving its functionalities listening to the users' feedback. And it has become one of the most successful shareware e-mail products. Now, we totally renewed the program as Becky! Ver.2. Our main aim for ver.2 is developing more stable, fast, and feature rich program without losing its most important virtue - Ease of use.
• You can create multiple mailboxes, of course. Moreover, you can create multiple "profiles" for each mailbox. This feature is especially useful if you use laptop computer. You can switch between several different settings, like "LAN" and dialup, for the same mailbox.
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Length about 44cm (17.3 inches)
Length with Horns about 52cm (20.5 inches)
Width from Horn Tip to Tip is about 56cm (22 inches)
due to natural material and hand carved / hand made, size, colour and design can vary slightly.
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we need 5 – 12 days to process and make licenses / cites for shipping, and your order will arrive 4 – 10 days after we send you shipping confirmation and tracking code. the horns will not be sent attached to the skull to reduce the size and shipping costs.
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Posted by Chic Aeon in design, hunts, sneak peak on Saturday, March 31, 2012
AD Creations and is the prize on the Fashioncentric 5 Hunt. With the new month starting, hunts will be underway again soon. This is the last day for many great gathering adventures, so if you were lazy -- get out there and find those prize vendors!
Cheeky Pea adjusts to your prim budget. Chairs are an amazing three prims, table is two. Shadows are included but can be unlinked (yeah). Part of the Stumblebum April Mood theme which starts tomorrow, the seat features nine different prints all in the color palette for the event. The items on the table can be rezzed one at a time or in a group as shown. They DO count against your prim allotment so can be used on estate land that ban temp rezzers.
The full set comes with lots and lots of different animations and prop givers (phone, tea cup etc.). The stand alone chair has different sits, so be sure and check out both models to see what works best for you.
You can purchase just the table, just the chair or as a set which includes a very cute nine prim lighting fixture. Lots of options. Plenty of decorating fun.
Here is the list of the Stumblebum participants for April 1- 15: April: 1-14
Aura, Illusory, Truth, Kyoot, Frooti, Insufferable Dastard, Miao, Cheeky Pea, Paper.Doll, Boom
Guest - Piddile
Do You Remember - Hand Prints
Posted by Chic Aeon in Do You Remember, new releases on Friday, March 30, 2012
Now about those painter hand prints on my behind --- THOSE are my "do you remember" item of the eve. I found them as I was finishing up my Body Parts > Tattoo folder, readying myself to tackle Chav's Stuff in my inventory clean up. I am down to 34,000 from 40,000 and feeling good about my reorganization.
The hand prints were a prize in the 2009 LAP Poop Hunt from a store named *smudge. I loved them then and I love them now.
Pose by: BehaviorBody
Sante Fe Memories
Posted by Chic Aeon in new releases on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Pose by: BehaviorBody
Gifts Galore
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, sneak peak on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Blogger is changing the interface and this is my first post on the new one. While I often go kicking and screaming into the future, I think this is a big improvement. A bit of getting used to but lots more room and most buttons seem obvious. Yeah!
Poses by: Vista Animations
MWFW 2012 - Halcali
Posted by Chic Aeon in design, guy stuff, new releases on Monday, March 26, 2012
Trompe Loeil - Sky Island Skysphere, a mesh fantasy creation. The hills and valleys offer intimate areas for your creative endeavors. Place a picnic area here, a cozy cottage there, some flora and fauna -- and you have a lovely place in the sky. My favorite part is the sphere which seems to have its own atmosphere. Sunlight and shadows filter though and Windlight settings are tons of fun! The sphere measure 64 x 64 with the island area being 40 x 40. You can use them together or separately. At only 91 prims, this is quite a bargain.
Poses by: LAP and Diesel Works
Light and Shadow
Posted by Chic Aeon in hair, new releases, poses on Sunday, March 25, 2012
I also have a TASTEFUL new neighbor at my cottage by the bridge (my permanent home for now since I am no longer at LEA). She moved in the night before last and I now have cute houses and lovely trees and grasses as my vista. In order to enjoy my expanded view, I opened up an exterior wall. That gave way to a redesign of the house as well as some Spring cleaning and redecoration. I added a mini photo studio on one wall. It is almost unnoticeable and very low prim. Both work well for my 512 lot.
eXxEsS, REDUX in black. It comes complete with platform boots. The recent hair release, .:EMO-tions:. *DOMENICA *, works very well.
Poses by: BehaviorBody from the newly released Fashion Series Poses set (includes mirrors).
Whose That Girl?
Posted by Chic Aeon in hair, new releases, poses, skins on Saturday, March 24, 2012
First up a new version of Lisa from Akeruka. With lots of vampy makeups to choose from, this was my personal favorite (MK1) which features dark eye shadows and pale lips. There is a matching never sees the light of day Damien skin for the guys. Should you be into role play or simply like to hang out in coffins, head over there.
Alli&Ali called Wilma. This is one of my favorite recent releases from that shop and you can try it out for free in a pretty caramel color on the Marketplace.
Some of you may remember that I made poses and animations for awhile. That experience taught me how very difficult it is to make smooth animations that appear lifelike. These are up towards the top of the mountain quality wise, so if you are looking for something special, zip on over to the shop and try some out. The packs are sold as limited editions, for now anyway. Personally, I don't care if forty or four hundred or four thousand people have what I have as long as I like it *wink*. But some of you do care, so if being elite works for you -- this is your store. I am planning on slipping the animations into an AO to keep that inventory down *wink*.
There are some group gift items at the shop too.
Outfit by Vextra Fashion (not new).
Poses by: EPHIPHANY
Do You Remember - Fruit Fetish
Posted by Chic Aeon in Do You Remember on Friday, March 23, 2012
As the conversation continued, the Fruit Fetish calendar from (*chanimations was mentioned. It wasn't difficult to remember Gogo posting the whole calendar a couple of years back. There are twelve props with animations. Use them for a calendar or just for fun. Use the poses built into the props or add your own favorite poseballs after YOU clean out your animations folder *wink*.
Very pretty, I can't wait until it is melon season again. It SNOWED six inches yesterday in my corner of the globe. Yikes! Shown here with one of the !dM deviousMind "Perola do Brasil" colors (kiwi) -- not vintage but it certainly is a great pairing colorwise.
Psst! A little fairy told me that the calendar set is currently on sale, so check that out.
Pose by: BehaviorBody
Do You Remember - The Money Bag
Posted by Chic Aeon in Do You Remember on Wednesday, March 21, 2012
And here's the story on the money bag. Gogo found this at Little Heaven and blogged about it. Lust was in my heart. I had to have one too. So I zipped over to the shop and found the camper. Back then (March 2008) product camping was a big thing. You sat and reaped the rewards of a product of your choice. In this case the camping prop was a noose. Yes, really. I don't remember the time frame, but let's call it half an hour of hanging in a noose on a gallows. I really must have wanted the backpack.
It dispenses money as you walk along. The money is timed of course and disappears. This was just at the beginning of sculpties and the pack is actually made from prims. It would fall short by today's standards, but four years ago? Wow. My search no longer brings up a Little Heaven store, but if it is gone, it had a good long run.
My hair was my trademark style for about a year. Carolina Jasmine Dark Frost from Calla where I spent many many happy hours camping for hairs and playing trivia for real lindens. The top prize, if you had the correct answer was $50. Much fun.
Pose by: aDORKable
Into the Past
Posted by Chic Aeon in hair, new releases, sneak peak
Pose by: aDORKable
Linden Realms - Abandoment?
Posted by Chic Aeon in comment, new releases on Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Before I get to that, fashion news especially for the feeds. This cute, barely there outfit is from Paradisis. And congrats to designer ankhari tammas who JUST turned five! Parts from the So Sexy set come separately and there are many colors to choose from. The purse will come in handy of course for storing all those crystals.
I like to think that this blog goes beyond fashion, at least from time to time. Something is amiss in our world and simply put, I would like a chronicle for history's sake.
Here's the deal. Linden Realms opened the first of December. I journeyed over mid month when my desktop was down and I was oh so bored (Graphics on my notebook? No way!) I thought it might be a game my RL girlfriend and I could play together. Eventually that came to pass. Things looked very odd though on my 1.23.5 viewer. No mesh! Oh my.
Eventually I made it over on my rebuilt computer and Firestorm 3.22. MUCH better. My alt visits often. I am not embarrassed to be there hunting crystals but I have way too many IMs and mail; so disruptive when you are running from rock monsters. At first it was fun and things worked well, but the last month or so? No so much. There are six "regions" of Tyrah's made up of twelve sims each. If you zoom out on the map you can see that there are many MORE instances of Tyrah's -- not accessible. They may have been made for the future; I know not.
What I DO know is that things are breaking in the Realms. They are breaking and not getting fixed. Currently there are only two portals that lead to instances of Tyrah's that will load your HUD. The hud let's new folks know what they need to do for their quest. A couple of months ago people were questing up a storm. Colored bubbles with avatars inside covered the landscape as they raced against rock monsters to reach canons along the edge of the region. I haven't seen a colored bubble in many weeks.
Whole sims are not working. The sim is still there with trees and sometimes buildings, but there are no crystals to collect and most often no rock monsters to run from. Even while the sims fail to deliver their optimum enjoyment, attendance is increasing. Between fewer crystals and more people, the challenge is escalating. Not necessarily a bad thing.
I have a few friends that visit the Realms. Some have just joined after seeing what fun it is to hunt those crystals, some have returned to the fold after long absences. So in that way, the Realms have been a success. But why are things breaking and WHY are they not being fixed? I see reports on the Answer Forum from folks wanting to report Realm sims that are down. Obviously, I am not the only one that has noticed.
The general consensus among my friends is that The Labs have a popular game within a game; so popular it is costing them too much money. So when things break, they simply don't fix them. There are a few with more dire ideas that The Labs are purposefully turning off sims to keep the cost of payout down.
I of course don't know the answer. I DO know that folks are noticing. It doesn't send a good message. According to New World Notes, LL says that the new user base has increased. The idea that most of the new users are younger seems likely to me. There is a lot of cheating going on in the Realms. I can't see forty year olds playing the game that way.
It seems like The Labs have abandoned their brainchild of 2011 in favor of the new Wilderness regions made for premium members. I can't visit as I am not premium, but I can look over my RL friend's shoulders and I plan to do that some day. I am having difficulty getting excited about the Wilderness. From the press it seems like some regions where you can meet and chat and such without worrying about the "no payment info on file" folks, indeed without even us with payment info on file but not used :D.
That's my tirade for the eve. I just wanted this down so that I could refer to it in the future. It will be interesting to see what happens to the Realms.
Later note: Since I was at the realms and had a bunch of crystals to turn in that I had forgotten about AND a quest to finish, I tried to do that. While I tried both doors where the hud still works, it appears that the quest is broken and you cannot actually continue or indeed ever get paid for your efforts. This has been a long time issue, but one I thought had been fixed. Silly me. Good to know though as my girlfriend can just hunt for crystals tomorrow when she comes to visit. No point in questing it seems. So much effort gone to waste. Sad.
Pose by: Nigotine
Do You Remember - The Towel
Posted by Chic Aeon in Do You Remember
Going along with that little girl look, we have one of my favorite old hairs, KOSH- FANNY FROM THE TREE. A few of you may remember when there were weekly dollarbies at Kosh and Concrete flowers. I still have quite a few things from then, that says a lot.
Photo taken at The Loft.
Pose by: adplayin Fayray, part of the towel set
Posted by Chic Aeon in guy stuff, sneak peak
What's a combat outfit without great boots? The textures on these are amazing. There are even small scuffs in the leather.
Click that photo for a close up look.
While these and other new releases aren't available quite yet, you can find similar merchandise at the PXDTOXIC shop.
Poses by: Diesel Works
Mixin' Mesh
Posted by Chic Aeon in mesh, new releases on Monday, March 19, 2012
Shown is one of the dandy tanks with easy day trousers. Tanks come with two styles of hems and pants come in two lengths. Lots of sizes as always. I seemed to have gained a bit of weight in this release *wink* so you too may need to move up a size.
Pose by: Dutchies bar stool
Do You Remember - A Project
Posted by Chic Aeon in Do You Remember on Sunday, March 18, 2012
As I was wandering though my Accessories > backpacks folder I found this antique. That got me to thinking. So as a reward to myself for tackling that inventory I am going to take a walk down Memory Lane. You oldsters can remember before sculpts, when textures were most often 256 x 256 and sometimes 16 x 16 -- those good old, bad old days. I'll be posting my reminiscences and if anyone would like to join in the project (Nissa are you still reading?) feel free to link your post or Flickr photo to this post or any of the future ones. There will be a category on the side called "Do You Remember". And if any of you still have these goodies, that would be fun to know too.
First up: TheZoo Adventurer Backpack (March 15, 2008).
Remember The Zoo? Sculpties were very new then and the server took forever to load the streetlamps there. Animals were in evidence and boutique stores lined the center park-like zoo area. Tuli had her store there for a long while. This backpack was a free item. It took me many trips to find and it wasn't a hunt. I can't remember the details, but I was SO thrilled when I finally found the giveaway vendor.
Honorable mention: Kissy Kissy hair from Tiny Bird (Sept 5, 2009). This was a give away on the second PooP Hunt, after LAP had moved to its own sim sharing with Tiny Bird and housing many smaller shops. We were looking for piles of poop and toilet paper roles. Lots of great gifts, I wore this hair for a very long time, mostly in silver.
Pose by: LAP, "Break It Down" I don't remember the story behind this pose but I have had it since Sept 1, 2009.
Going Gothic
Posted by Chic Aeon in new releases
Posted by Chic Aeon in skins on Saturday, March 17, 2012
Wild One
EMO-tions is from last Fall. I always liked it, just never had a partner skin. This works very nicely. Oh what wonders we find when cleaning out our inventory *wink*.
Poses by: Diesel Works
This nicely textured 115 prim house is from *Kukuvaya* Home. Two story and mod, it would work for many folks. The bench is the gift from Second Spaces and the tulip planter from Tranquility Way Station. Wander the charming streets and find some great items for your home.
Last Day
My dress of the morning is the hunt prize at Fashion for Life from EMO-tions. My hair, simply named "hairpiece" comes in a variety of natural shades with this being dark gray. Find it at the Salon de GLOW store. Asymmetrical flower shapes add a touch of whimsy to this updo. The front frames the face with long messy bangs.
Poses by: SyDS
Nightly Androgyny
Posted by Chic Aeon in new releases, skins on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
While I am definitely a gal at heart, I have always been intrigued by the androgyny look. Long ago -- maybe three years -- there was a blogger who presented that look in each post. With great photography skills and a good sense of style, it was a pleasure to view those features. Sometimes the look would be more male, sometimes female. In truth, they definitely (notice the lack of gender mentioned) did a great job presenting the lifestyle choice.
The release is huge with tons of choices. One of the most fun bonuses in my estimation are the makeups. Here I stacked two. Demos are of course available. This is a great skin if you are "young" or "boyish" or if you are a male that loves that softer look.
Blue Blood called Nightly. Pink, purple, red and teal versions are also available. Mesh boots previously featured are from lassitude & ennui.
Poses by: Juxtapose
In the Mines
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies on Monday, March 12, 2012
He asked me to be on the lookout for some good quality (and free) jeans. Amazingly when you are looking for something it seems harder to find. Isn't that the way. Well happily I now have a set for him. Not only are the jeans very nice with great texturing and optional prim bottoms, they come with an equally nice shirt.
Since I didn't want to recommend something I hadn't tried on -- well, you know where the story is going -- blog post. The anniversary gift from Rispetto Designs, Operaio Outfit in blue, fills the bill and downsizes beautifully for gals that like the rugged look. Ladies that like the formal look should check in the women's department next door.
Anyone who has followed this blog for a long while knows how I love belts with lots of "stuff". This [BUKKA] Buttle belt ver2.3(woman) is happily in the archives of the subscribo. You also get a very nice over the shoulder satchel. Just check the archive history and reap the goodies.
Since I am not a fan of war or war games, I headed over to the mines which seemed like an appropriate place for dynamite et al.
Poses by: LAP
Audrey, Meg and Lizzy
Posted by Chic Aeon in mesh, new releases, skins
Akeruka has four skins out with 100% donated to Fashion For Life 2012. This is Audrey Natural New Makeup :D.
Poses by: aDORKable
Book Learnin'
Posted by Chic Aeon in hunts, mesh, new releases on Sunday, March 11, 2012
My dress of the day is the new tangled dress in cedar from JANE for the Mesh March Madness event. This is my personal favorite of the release group. Happily I blend in nicely with the forest. The newest studies show that 75% of residents are now using mesh viewers so I feel comfortable enough wearing this out and about. Yeah!
These are what you are looking for. They are sometimes alone, often with "friends". Look high, look low, look in the water. Look in obvious places and places not so obvious.
Most of all, have fun.
And now I am going back to hunting.
Poses by: Vista Animations, the book pile
Milestones - 500,000
Posted by Chic Aeon in hair, new releases on Saturday, March 10, 2012
And tonight I am here at what I still think of as the Relay For Life fashion venue - now Fashion for Life, an event I have covered four times in my fashionista career. The designers have made some beautiful new items for the occasion. So be sure and stop by. Shown here is a really striking mini from EMO-tions, the Hera dress. It comes with a long skirt also. The hair I am wearing is one of EMO-tion's new Domenica styles which include hairbase and VERY VERY long high ponytail. I like it!
It is another transition time for me. I will be leaving LEA12 in a few days as our endowments are up. The future is uncertain for the moment, but that's really OK. There are always adventures and new paths to choose from. I have been visiting the other LEA sims and doing some filming while I have the chance. Soon they will be gone and all we will have are our memories and photos.
I have been blogging for four years now. This is an anniversary of sorts. So here's to all the new kids on the block -- may they be sixteen or sixty or eighty-three :D. We have so much to celebrate in our virtual world. May it nourish us and spur us on to be the best that we can be.
Poses by: Juxtapose
It's Time - Fashion for Life
Posted by Chic Aeon in hair, new releases on Friday, March 9, 2012
Poses by: Juxtapose
Posted by Chic Aeon in freebies, guy stuff, hunts, mesh, new releases on Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wonder's boot are the guy prize from Opium on the Moolto hunt (see this post).
Poses by: Vista Animations, LAP, Helamiyo, Juxtapose


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